PP Biological Perspectives

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Early views?
Personality types are inherited in our genes
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Hippocrates?
4 personality types: choleric (quick tempered), sanguine (cheerful), phlegmatic (sluggish), malncholic (gloomy)
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Galen?
Personality depended on 4 humours: yellow bile (choleric), blood (sanguine), phlegm (phlegmatic), black bile (melancholic)
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Personality and body type models?
Either because genes cause both body type and personality, or genes cause body type and this causes personality
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Ernst Kretchsmer (1921) body types?
3 body types: Aesthetic (fragile), athletic (muscular), pyknic (plump)
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Kretchsmer (1921) body type on personality?
Schizophrenia (aesthenic), thought disorders (athletic), manic depression (pyknic). 4th body type is dysplastic
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Sheldon (1942) body types?
3 body types: ectomorphy (fragile), mesomorphy (muscular), endomorphy (plump)
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Sheldon (1942) body type on personality?
Ectomorphs were cerebrotonia (introverted) mosomorphs were somatonia (energetic), endomorphs were visceratonia (sociable)
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Sheldon (1942) study?
Studied 200 males only
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Glueck and Gleuck (1950, 1956) study?
Found delinquent boys are more likely to be mosomorphs
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Galen?

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